PEP
Personalized Education Program
For homeschooling families who direct their child’s education. PEP families manage an education savings account toward a family-designed mix of curriculum, instruction, and enrichment.
Step Up For Students & ESA funding
Florida families have education savings account options that can help fund enrichment programming. Here’s how Step Up For Students works, which programs matter for schools and families, and exactly where VPA stands.
What is Step Up For Students?
Step Up For Students is a Florida nonprofit scholarship funding organization that administers the state’s school-choice scholarship programs. Through education savings accounts (ESAs), eligible families direct scholarship funds toward approved education expenses — tuition, curriculum, and in some program lanes, enrichment programs and services from approved providers.
For schools, co-ops, and homeschool communities, that matters: families in your community may already hold these scholarships, and the ESA model shapes how programs like VPA can be funded.
Three programs to know
FES-EO
Family Empowerment Scholarship — Educational Options
For families choosing an education setting beyond their assigned public school. Most often associated with private school tuition, with ESA flexibility toward other approved uses.
FES-UA
Family Empowerment Scholarship — Unique Abilities
For students with unique abilities. ESA funds can be directed toward a broader range of approved services and supports.
Eligibility, award details, and allowable expenses are defined by Step Up For Students and Florida law — and they change. Always verify current program rules directly with Step Up For Students.
How ESA funds could support enrichment
In some program lanes, ESA funds can go toward enrichment programming and services from approved providers — not just tuition. That’s the connection point for structured youth pickleball instruction like VPA’s.
For families
Homeschool and PEP families in particular could direct existing scholarship funds toward approved enrichment — a structured sports program among them, subject to Step Up’s program rules.
For schools & co-ops
A meaningful share of your families may already hold Step Up scholarships. That can factor into how a program is funded when we scope a proposal for your community.
Where VPA stands
VPA is pursuing approved-provider status with Step Up For Students. We are not yet an approved provider, and we’ll update this page the moment that changes. In the meantime, program pricing works the same for every school and community: request a proposal and we’ll scope it with or without scholarship funding in the picture.
Verify with Step Up For Students
Eligibility, program rules, and allowable expenses are determined by Step Up For Students — not by VPA. Before making plans around scholarship funds, confirm the current details at the source.
More questions about programs, pricing, or safety? See the FAQ.
Plan your program — with funding in view.
We’ll scope formats, scheduling, and pricing to your school or community.